Vergil's Downfall adds six chapters, a couple of new enemies, and the ability to play as the ever power-hungry Vergil after the events of DmC.
In 2006, Sony Pictures and MGM decided that the James Bond character needed a reboot, as the tale of a gadget laden, smooth talking secret agent had gone stale. They went back and explored Ian Fleming's first short story on the character in a tale called Casino Royale. Determined not to water him down with gadgets, catchy one-liners and a cavalier attitude, they built up a raw individual and broke...[Read More]
Welcome back to another year of the big league, players.
I feel like I'm in the Goldmine again trying to spend all the quarters I can in an endless game that has owned me over and over again. It's like the 80s all over again on the PS3.
Crysis 3 sorta begins where Crysis 2 left off, with New York in trouble. This time the CELL corporation has incapacitated the city and pretty much kept the world out. As CELL has collected so much profit over the years with massive amounts of energy for it to sale (or barter for slavery), it’s in their best interest to keep it safe and guarded. That’s where Prophet steps into the li...[Read More]
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and I didn’t end our relationship on the greatest terms. After 120 hours of intermittent bliss Skyrim began to reduce its frame rate to single digits, increase its incessant load times to unbearable lengths, and crash my PlayStation 3 with alarming frequency. The game was broken. Sanctioned patches and unofficial fixes couldn’t make things better and in earl...[Read More]
For a time, Raiden was the punch line of the most renowned practical joke in gaming. His debut as the surprise protagonist of Sons of Liberty was only forgiven seven years later by his sensational role in Guns of the Patriots. Along similar lines, when Kojima Productions failed to transition Metal Gear Rising's impressive tech demo into a full-fledged game, PlatinumGames stepped in to rebuild and ...[Read More]
The popular anime/manga known as Fist of the North Star is celebrating it's thirtieth anniversary in 2013, and Tecmo Koei is bringing fans a new full length beat'em up with Ken's Rage 2.
Sly Cooper and the gang return in an all new adventure.
The third game in a series is always the toughest planet to crack. If the sequel addressed mistakes and refined ideas of a first entry, and it if was successful, where does that leave the inevitable follow-up? The newly perfected formula won't work twice, and if its elements are altered too drastically it's likely to explode and make a mess. Visceral Games' solution to this volatile problem was to...[Read More]
Arc System Works' Guilty Gear series has been around for some fifteen years now. In early December, the latest home version, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus, was finally released on the PSN, having previously been released on XBLA, Wii, and PSP. The R version is live in select arcades now, so even though Plus isn't the latest, it's still a solid technical 2D fighter with a deep history.
Ron Gilbert and Double Fine Productions attempt to combine their trademark humor, nostalgia for point-and-click adventure games with the practicality of the modern puzzle-platformer.